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Wollastonite from
Willsboro, Essex County, New York, USA


Classification
Species:Wollastonite
Formula:Ca3(Si3O9)
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Diopside6 photos of Wollastonite associated with Diopside at this locality.
Grossular4 photos of Wollastonite associated with Grossular at this locality.
Garnet Group1 photo of Wollastonite associated with Garnet Group at this locality.
Andradite-Grossular Series1 photo of Wollastonite associated with Andradite-Grossular Series at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Wollastonite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Willsboro, Essex County, New York, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:98666
Long-form Identifier:1:3:98666:7
GUID (UUID V4):e011d465-c220-47c8-989b-532405825210
Localities for Wollastonite in this Region
Willsboro mine, Willsboro, Essex County, New York, USA
Nearest other occurrences of Wollastonite
3.6km (2.2 miles) Willsboro mine, Willsboro, Essex County, New York, USA
16.4km (10.2 miles) Oak Hill Mine, Lewis, Essex County, New York, USA
18.9km (11.8 miles) Lewis Mine (Cabot Corporation Mine; Lewis NYCO Mine), Lewis, Essex County, New York, USA
40.9km (25.4 miles) Cascade Slide, Cascade Mountain, Keene Township, Essex County, New York, USA
80.1km (49.8 miles) Tahawus Mine access railroad cut, Minerva, Minerva Township, Essex County, New York, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
zoning in garnet from the Willsboro Wollastonite Skarn, Adirondack Mts, New York: a record of shallow hydrothermal...Geophysics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706, USA (coryc@geology.wisc.edu) ABSTRACT Oscillatory zoning...skarn garnet from the Willsboro wollastonite deposit, NE Adirondack Mts, NY, USA, preserves a record of...thick, rigid, garnetite layers. The garnet provide new information about the hydrothermal system adjacent...Mid-Proterozoic, granulite facies Adirondack Mountains of New York (Fig. 1), are a polymetamorphic terrane. Studies
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
AND TALC-HYDROTHERMAL ALTERATION PRODUCTS OF WOLLASTONITE by RONALD D. DERuDDER* and CARL W. BECK Department...in the Willsboro, New York, wollastonite deposit have effected the conversion of wollastonite to layer-lattice...silicates. Alteration products sheath faults in wollastonite and may be divided into three gradational but...least altered (fresh) country rock composed of wollastonite with minor diopsidic clinopyroxene and grossularite-andradite...montmorillonitic alteration product, pseudomorphous after wollastonite, as stevensite. Stevensite, a trioctahedral
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Copyright © 1998 Elsevier Science Ltd Printed in the USA. All rights reserved 0016-7037/98 $19.00 1 .00 Pergamon...hydrothermal systems: The Willsboro-Lewis wollastonite ores, New York, USA PHILIP R. WHITNEY1,* and JAMES...OLMSTED2,† 1 Geological Survey, New York State Museum, Albany, New York 12230, USA Department of Earth and Environmental...Environmental Sciences, SUNY College, Plattsburgh, New York 12901, USA 2 (Received August 4, 1997; accepted in...Abstract—Wollastonite ores and garnet-pyroxene skarns in the Willsboro-Lewis district, New York, USA were
Report (issue)
W()1lasto11ilc fro111 the Lewis dcp()Sit, Willsbor(l, New Y ()rk. S111all grains of red-bro\\ 11 gar11et a11d... Contents Wollastonite Page 1 2 7 9 18 33 37 40 Introduction Properties of Wollastonite Mode of Occurrence...Prices and Tariffs Synthetic Calcium Silicates Wollastonite in Commonwealth Countries 46 46 49 49 51 United...India 51 52 Australia New Zealand Other Commonwealth Countries 53 Wollastonite in Foreign Countries... 1 . . 111 ustrations PLATE I 1. Crude wollastonite from : - Lappeenranta, Finland 2. Commercial:w6llastonite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
two cubic phases in andradites from Quebec and New York Sytle M. Antao · Mashrur Zaman · Vitor L. Gontijo...from (1) Black Lake, Quebec (QC) and (2) Willsboro, New York (NY), was refined with the Rietveld method...intergrowths in birefringent andradites from Quebec and New York. The individual phases are easily observed with...is from the Willsboro wollastonite skarn, NE Adirondack Mts., Essex Co., New York (NY), USA. According...However, zoned garnets are not common in the Willsboro area. Our sample contains anhedral andradites
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
NEW ADIRONDACK MINERAL DISCOVERY ROY R. KENNEDY P.O. Box 36. Keeseville, New York Downloaded by [University...10:16 04 August 2017 The Adirondack Mountains of New York have long been recognized as a storehouse of minerals...practical for a non-metallic mineral such as wollastonite. In June I960 contracts were let to the Joy...of Keeseville, New York, to conduct an exploratory drilling program at Lewis, New York, under the direction...Severn Brown. Twenty-two holes were drilled and wollastonite was cored in twenty holes under an average overburden
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
WI 53706, USA 2 The U.S. Geological Survey, 345 Middlefield Road, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA Abstract....PCO 2 = 6-8 kbar. Widespread occurrences of wollastonite, within the granulite facies, were stable only...outlier of the Grenville Province in northern New York, and are characterized by the strong regional...Boettcher 1981); from a rock containing akermanite + wollastonite + monticellite (Valley and Essene 1980b); and...LP77-211-12 750gf woll 15.3 clinopyroxene wollastonite gneiss, 0.3 m from LP77-211-17, Keene LP77-211-17
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Texas at Austin, TX, USA. Department of Geology, University of Kansas, KS, USA CR Corresponding author:...State University, PA, USA 1 ACCEPTED MANUSCRIPT ABSTRACT This study presents a new laser ablation-inductively...LA-ICPMS U-Pb geochronology: Willsboro Andradite (~1020 Ma, Adirondacks, AN USA), Red and Yellow Mali Grandite...ionization mass Pb/238U date of 1022 ± 16 Ma. We use Willsboro Andradite as a primary reference ED 206 M ... spectrometry (ID-TIMS) U-Pb analyses of Willsboro andradite yield a weighted mean PT material for
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
St. Lawrence University 23 Romoda Drive Canton, New York 13617 jchiarenzelli@stlawu.edu MARIAN LUPULESCU...3140 CEC Research and Collections New York State Museum Albany, New York 12230 marian.lupulescu@nysed.gov...gov Town of Pitcairn St. Lawrence County New York Part 2: Geology GEORGE W. ROBINSON Department of Geology...Geology St. Lawrence University Canton, New York 13617 robinson@mtu.edu DAVID G. BAILEY Geosciences...Geosciences Department Hamilton College Clinton, New York 13323 dbailey@hamilton.edu MICHAEL R. WALTER PO Box
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
and species names in Table 1, in keeping with the new nomenclature of the garnet supergroup (Grew et al...Grossular Willsboro-Lewis skarn belt, wollastonite and clinopyroxene-bearing rocks, Willsboro, NY Almandine...garnet-phlogopite gneiss Grossular, Willsboro Mine, clinopyroxene-bearing rocks, Willsboro, NY Almandine, Barton Mine...Grossular, Willsboro-Lewis skarn belt, wollastonite and clinopyroxene-bearing rocks, Willsboro, NY Grossular...Hofmeister) Grossular, Los Angeles Museum, Bishop, Inyo County, CA (Anne Hofmeister) Almandine in mica schist
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
53706, USA Department of Geology, Oberlin College, 52 W. Lorain St., Oberlin, OH 44074, USA a r t i...In this study, 26 garnet standards (including 14 new standards) that span the compositional range of pyrope...analyzed repeatedly by ion microprobe to develop a new method of correcting for instrumental bias in garnets...that remains an independent source of error. The new correction scheme is used to successfully reproduce...While previous analyses were at the mm-scale, the new data resolve a gradient of δ18O of 2.1‰ over 16 µm
Book
MtN€RfllS of New Vork Stole David €. Jensen Includes 16 pages of minerals in full color jgS0% MIN6RRLS... MIN6RRLS of New Vork State David E. Jensen up WARD PRESS Ward's Natural Science Establishment, Inc...Inc. Rochester, New York • Monterey, California Copyright 1978 by David E. Jensen All rights reserved...mining distri* Adirondack Mou somed into a lifet New York State. While obtainu University of Roc Science...Kay Preface This report on the Minerals of New York State is partially a sum­ mary of published knowledge
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
on 'Laminated Pleistocene deposits at Marks Tey, Essex'. He was elected a Fellow of the Geological Society...'Cobalt', and at the time of his death that on 'Wollastonite' was in the press and 'Zirconium and Hafnium'...'Cobalt', 'Zircon' and 'Copper' in the periodical New Commonwealth. During his service with the Mineral...and overseas, gathering information on cobalt, wollastonite and zircon. In 1960 he toured Canada and the...study the mining and processing of wollastonite at Willsboro, New York, and the operating company's research
Book
T TLIBRAr 3 1223 90016 3958 of New York State David E. Jensen .. . , ,,, Includes 16 pages of...Lake in New York's Finger Lakes district. After attending Penn Yan Academy in nearby Penn Yan, New York...blossomed into a lifetime interest in the minerals of New York State. While obtaining his M.S. in geology at...the outline of New York State is LABRADORJTE from the Saranac Lake area. of New York State David E....Natural Science Establishment, Inc . • Rochester, New York • Monterey, California Copyright 1978 by David
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Society chose northern New York State for their summer field trip. The North County Mineralogical Society...Plattsburg, New York, offered to guide us around that area. Mr. George Sandiford of the North County Club was...evening, when we returned to Plattsburg, the North County Society had a picnic dinner ready for us at the...took us down to the Cabot Mineral Co. Quarry at Willsboro. One of the men from the company took us out...out into the quarry. We were after wollastonite and since that was the mineral being mined we didn't take
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
minerals Article Characterization of Fibrous Wollastonite NYAD G in View of Its Use as Negative Standard...Hanuskova, M.; et al. Characterization of Fibrous Wollastonite NYAD G in View of Its Use as Negative Standard...this work indicate that the commercial fibrous wollastonite NYAD G may be considered as a negative standard...fibres. Preliminary in vitro tests suggest that wollastonite NYAD G is not genotoxic. This material is nearly...fibre potential toxicity index (FPTI) model, wollastonite NYAD G is an inert mineral fibre that is expected
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
2014 Figure 1. County map of New York State, prepared by William Besse. MAJOR NEW YORK STATE M I N E...E R A L LOC A L I T I E S N ew York State is rich in minerals of interest to collectors. A number of...Dana 1877, 1892). Herbert P. Whitlock published a New York State list in 1903. The most recent comprehensive...localities in the state is the book Minerals of New York State by David Jensen, published in 1978. Our...Mode of Occurrence Most mineral localities in New York can be categorized into three groups based on
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
National Laboratory, PO Box 808, Livermore, CA 94550, USA 2 Department of Geology and Geophysics, University...University of Wisconsin–Madison, Madison, WI 53706, USA A B S TR A C T High-grade metamorphic rocks were used.... Recrystallized, granulite facies (725 °C) wollastonite ores from the northern −1 Adirondack highlands...solution)+garnet (a Grs–Adr solid solution)±wollastonite, and exhibit a systematic dependence of measured...Orthopyroxene and clinopyroxene from Gore Mountain, New York, show a constant fractionation that is independent
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Geology, State University of New York, College at Cortland, Cortland, New York 13045, U.S.A. 2 Department...Sciences, Snee Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, U.S.A. ABSTRACT A hydrothermal diamond...Quartz samples from the Adirondack Mountains, New York, were used in the heating experiments. Seven H2O...fluid inclusions from a drill core at the Willsboro wollastonite mine yielded homogenization temperatures...A-2 (right). (b, c) Two-phase inclusions from Willsboro, NY, containing a wall-wetting H2O + NaCl + CO2
Report (issue)
monthly by the New University of the State of BULLETIN York OCTOBER 298 New York FREDERICK Museum...Director Bulletin 70 MINERALOGY 3 LIST OF* NEW YORK MINERAL LOCALITIES BY H. \YHITLOCK P. C....STATE OF NEW YORK 1903 M125m-Je3-2000 PriCC 2O CCntS University of the State of With years New rk York...York of election 1892 WILLIAM CROSWELL DOANE D.D. LL.D. 1878 WHITELAW REiD^M.A. LL.D. CHAUNCEY M...TURNER LL.D. 1890 1890 1893 1895 1895 New York New York Rochester - - Utica Lowville MCKELWAY
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Geophysics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, W1 53706, USA Abstract. In granulite-facies samples from the Adirondack...CO2 Q~CO2) directly (i.e., calcite + quartz + wollastonite) or buffer the fugacity of oxygen 0c 02). Assemblages...Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843, USA Offprint requests to: W.M. Lamb tacharya and Sen...terranes, including the Adirondack Moun- 486 tains, New York, Bamble, southern N o r w a y (Touret 1971 ; Touret...(1) magnetite+ ilmenite-bearing samples, (2) wollastonite-bearing samples, and (3) hercynite-bearing samples
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
mineralogy at Michigan Technological University. A native New Yorker, he has had a lifelong interest in the minerals...of the state and is a research associate at the New York State Museum. 458 ROCKS & MINERALS Dr. Steven...minerals of New York State and is coordinator of the Center for Mineralogy at the New York State Museum...University] at 04:12 29 December 2014 The GEMS of NEW YORK State J ust what constitutes a gemstone has...such as opal, aquamarine, or tourmaline. Although New York State is not known for its traditional precious
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
presented by Hess, and upon one new orthopyroxene analysis and 7 new garnet analyses given here. It is...rocks of the Adirondack Mountains of Northern New York State has been previously published (Buddington...anorthosite and included layers of marble in the Willsboro and adjacent part of the Ausable quadrangles....to an andraditic grossularite. Scapolite and wollastonite may also be present locally. Quartz is often...anorthosite (Whiteface type) gneiss and marble near Willsboro has been previously described (Buddington, lg3g
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
World News on Mineral Occurrences Items on new finds are desired. Please send them in. Abbreviations:...miles long extending from Coosa County thru Talladega and into Calhoun County. Most of the distance it is...Dana's text-book as a titaniferous amphibole. The new system when it comes out will probably simply call...Arizona kaersutite comes from Hoover Dam, Mohave County. A % inch black cube of limonite pseudo after pyrite...good green crystals, has been obtained at a small new road cut near those quarries. Poor sphene is also
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
20059, USA Branch, Code 691, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland 20771, USA 3Faculty...the formation of the parent body. INTRODUCTION NEW METHOD The amount of acquired magnetization in rocks...rock 399 © Meteoritical Society, 2003. Printed in USA. 400 G. Kletetschka, T. Kohout, and P. J. Wasilewski...Barre, Vermonth 7.05 2 Muscovite granite, Concord, New Hampshire 9.85 3 Biotite hornblende granite, St....granite, Quincy, Massachusetts 7.4 5 Aplite, Boulder County, Colorado 6.96 6 Quartz monzonite porphyry, Garfield
 
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